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Bernie Madoff
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Bernie Madoff

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Bernard Lawrence Madoff was an American financial criminal and financier who was the admitted mastermind of the largest known Ponzi scheme in history, worth an estimated $65 billion. He was at one time chairman of the Nasdaq stock exchange. Madoff's firm had two basic units: a stock brokerage and an asset management bu…

Johannes Gutenberg
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Johannes Gutenberg
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Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was a German inventor and craftsman who invented the movable-type printing …

Colton Underwood
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Colton Underwood
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Colton Scott Brown-Underwood is an American reality television personality and former professional football player. He p…

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On This Day

10 events
2015
Western_Kentucky_University
Western Kentucky University announced a five-year suspension of their swimming and diving programs as a result of a hazing scandal.
2014
Boko_Haram
Boko Haram militants kidnapped 276 schoolgirls from a government secondary school in the town of Chibok, Nigeria.
2010
2010_eruptions_of_Eyjafjallajökull
Plumes of ash from a major eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland led to widespread disruption of air travel throughout Europe for several days.
2010
2010_Yushu_earthquake
Nearly 2,700 people were killed in an earthquake registering 6.9 Mw in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, China.
1999
1999_Sydney_hailstorm
A storm dropped around 500,000 tonnes of hailstones on Sydney (examples pictured) and the east coast of New South Wales, causing about A$2.3 billion in damages, the costliest natural disaster in Australian insurance history.
1994
Iraqi_no-fly_zones_conflict
Iraqi no-fly zones conflict: In a friendly-fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort, two U.S. Air Force aircraft mistakenly shot down two U.S. Army helicopters over northern Iraq, killing 26 people.
1983
Let's_Dance_(David_Bowie_album)
Let's Dance, English musician David Bowie's best-selling album, was released.
1978
1978_Georgian_demonstrations
Thousands of Georgians demonstrated in Tbilisi against an attempt by the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
1970
Apollo_13
After an oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 exploded, disabling the spacecraft's electrical and life-support systems, astronaut Jack Swigert reported: "Houston, we've had a problem here" (audio featured).
1967
Gnassingbé_Eyadéma
After leading a military coup three months earlier, Gnassingbé Eyadéma installed himself as President of Togo, a post that he held until 2005.

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